Appearance:Fairy's look somewhat like tiny elves with beautifully coloured wings, and exotically coloured skin and hair with green, blue, pink, teal, red, purple, being the most common in that order and with it being most common to have matching skin and hair.
Biology:According to the studies of Charles Dwarfwin from the last century, Fairy, The Fay or Dolarpapilo are believed to have evolved from a now extinct species of Lepidoptera, there closest living relative being Morpho peleides. Fairy's are a unique strange species. They are by far the smallest known species that have attained true sentience a fact that had been originally overlooked upon first contact by Elven and human settlers of the Americas. Fairies have evolved very differently from most of the vertebrate races that inhabit the world the most notable being there minuscule size with the average height for both genders being a mere 4.6 inches tall with the largest known specimen being an exceptionally large male individual called Oberon who was documented to be just over 6 inches tall. The other major evolutionary feature of the Fay is there means of communication though capable of verbal speech due to an evolutionary trait that allows them to perfectly mimic around 72% of sounds they hear. This feature though had never been used for communication between individuals until the arrival of other sapient species to there homeland roughly 418 years ago. Until then the Fay used there beautiful wings and superior eyesight for communication, as was discovered by the famous Charles Dwarfwin the Fay are capable of seeing ultraviolet light which allows them to see colours that humans and even elves can't even comprehend. This combined with the Fay's ability to alter the patten and colouration of there wings allowed them to communicate with members of there species. It has been noted by observation that each possibly combination of colour possesses a completely different meaning, even the slightest variation in shade or order in which colours are displayed can cause what appears to be two identical pattens to mean completely different things altogether.
Fay breed normally happens during the summer a male will seek out the most beautiful object he can find traditionally a flower once a suitable object has been found he will create a nest on the object in question. (Some modern Fay may instead create an artificial nest) Once a suitable object is claimed he will sing by combining the most interesting sounds that he has heard in his life in an attempt to attract a female to his flower. Once a female responds and find him she will first begin by inspecting the male and his choice of nest this allows the female to determine both the males physique and intelligence. If he has selected a poor nest or is found to be lacking physically she will leave the male who will continue to sing until a female accepts him. If the female finds him and his selection of nest pleasing she will begin the courtship ritual by mimicking his song while using her wings to converse with him to learn as much about him as possible. After learning as much as she desires the Female will land upon the nest and will offer herself to the male and mating will begin. After mating has been completed the Female will lay between 40 – 60 eggs. After she finishes laying she will rest while the chosen male leaves to find food for his mate and young. The eggs take roughly a week to hatch into tiny caterpillars 5mm in size. In the days before the hatching the father will spend his entire time searching for food trying to amass enough too feed his young and mate for the entire pre-infancy period roughly 14 days. Over the next 14 days the caterpillars will spend there every waking hour consuming food growing constantly until eventually they will be ready to enter there chrysalis at this point the caterpillars will be around 1cm in size. The caterpillars will remain in the chrysalis for up to 3 weeks after which they will emerge as tiny infant fay 4 - 6mm tall. Once the last of her young emerges the mother will leave the nest with her young brood to find a suitable permanent home for her large family. Leaving the father behind who will either return to his home or will seek another mate depending on his mood.
Language:The Fay language is based upon the use of colours every single colour and shade has a meaning within the Fay languagbusingd the written language is also based upon this. Many Fay roughly 69% are also capable of speaking New Elvish which is by far the most common verbal language known by the species despite it being so widely known it almost never used for conversing with another member of the species outside of use in the military on radio.
Naming:Fay names are based upon colours which are approximate translations from there own colour based language Fay will normally also give a description of the colour in an attempt to differentiate themselves from other Fay. The reason for this being there aren't words to describe every shade of colour used by the Fay, for an example there are over 11'000 names in the Fay language which will translate into Pink which would make it the most common verbal name among the Fay.
Surnames are normally based upon the individuals occupation, and normally come before the given name examples:
Beekeeper Reddy Brown,
Chief Engineer Pinky Purple
Housekeeper Not to Dark Green,
Pair Farmer Navy Blue,
Elvish language teacher Light Teal
Innkeeper Not very dark Crimson